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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is a high performer in his school (which has very smart kids in general). His MAP scores and grades are great (all As and 99 percentile). He says he is quite bored with the 3rd grade material so I was hoping he would make it into CES but he didn't. We didn't send him to any prep classes - did get him one of those COGAT books to work on and he seemed to do great. But now I am regretting not helping him prep further - I am really conflicted about it because on the one hand, I know some kids who are smart but not really gifted but did a lot of prep and got in. On the other hand, maybe prepping them to get in defeats the purpose of CES!
The question I have is how do you get your kids in local school to be competitive in middle and high school if there is such a gap in instruction right from grade 4 between them and the CES kids. I keep reading on these boards how much work the 5th grade kids do in CES --- can some of the parents whose kids didn't make it to CES but got into magnets in middle/high school and/or got into top colleges comment? 
I am actually surprised I am feeling bad about this but it may be because my kid is feeling some sting of the rejection. [/quote]

If you feel that you missed out on something, do not despair, just take this time to have him ready for the next step. In two short years the middle school magnet is on the table and if he gets in he is all set and will never look back weather got into CES or not.[/quote]

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